David Kirk Vaughan

Runway Visions

An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968, 2d ed.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From February 1967 to April 1968, David Vaughan flew the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Southeast Asia. Initially a co-pilot, he moved up to aircraft commander and then instructor pilot as he mastered the challenges of landing on very short, unimproved airstrips in difficult terrain and bad weather. He describes his progression from inexperienced novice to veteran flyer as he learned his trade under combat conditions. Vaughan's airlift missions took him to more than 50 fields in South Vietnam, from the Delta in the south to the DMZ in the north, carrying supplies, mail, food, ammunition, and soldiers alive, wounded, and dead. Among his most harrowing flights were resupply missions into the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh during the most intensive days of the 1968 Tet offensive. This expanded and revised edition of his memoir details several additional episodes and features more than twice as many photographs as appeared in the original edition.

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Produktdetails

• Voices in American Military Aviation
• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781476694689
• ISBN-10: 1476694680
• Artikelnr.: 71799063

Autorenporträt

David Kirk Vaughan is a retired Air Force officer and educator. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface Introduction to the Revised Edition Poem: "Visions of Runways" Before 1.
New Guy 2.
The View from the Air 3.
Check Out 4.
On the Shuttle 5.
Rubber Plantations and Banana Runs 6.
Da Nang ABCCC 7.
Piece of Cake 8.
The Golf Course 9.
Blackout Flight to Khe Sanh 10.
Orbit City 11.
Phan Thiet in Blue 12.
Long Night over the South China Sea 13.
Dancing in the Alligator House 14.
Ground Pounder 15.
Gear and Flaps Man 16.
Taipei R&R 17.
Christmas at Khe Sanh 18.
Bao Loc in the Fog 19.
Tet 20.
Rising Dust at Dak To 21.
Blind Descent to Kham Duc 22.
Low Visibility at Quang Tri 23.
Bangkok Shuttle 24.
Old Head After Poem: "Incident at Tuy Hoa" Postscript Pronunciation Guide Military History of David K. Vaughan Index